Slash-and-burn cultivation, otherwise known as __________, is a farming technique for preparing new fields by cutting down trees and bushes then burning them in order to clear the land and enrich the soil with nutrients
a. crop rotation
b. field rotation
c. swidden cultivation
d. fertilizer-based horticulture
Answer: c
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According to the Immigration Policy lecture, Canadians do not immigrate illegally to the United States because Canada is a wealthy country unlike Mexico
a. True b. False
Radiometric dating techniques
a. are not based on the phenomenon of radioactive isotope decay rates b. can be used to determine the absolute age of organic materials c. include the K/Ar but not carbon-14 methods d. are a form of stratigraphy e. are relative dating techniques
Fossils from Africa and Europe from ______ to ______ are placed within H. heidelbergensis
a. 850,000ya, 200,000ya. b. 300,000ya, 100,000ya. c. 125,000ya, 75,000ya d. 990,000ya, 600,000ya e. 500ya, 150ya.
The "traditional" idea that "a woman's place is in the home"
a. developed among middle- and upper-class Americans as industrialism spread after 1900. b. is actually a cultural universal. c. accurately reflects the worldwide sexual division of labor. d. is based in the preindustrial era and began to disappear as women moved into the factories in the 1900s e. was part of the Pledge of Allegiance until it was challenged in the early 1800s